---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4048"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4048 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-08-10"
last_action: "2023-11-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8fbeeff-69b9-4ea7-a6dd-46fc5ff4a4f9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4048"
source_hash: "b6d9b8f13f814d601db17a3ba9292f45514fc4af21983427350c3ecbc5945733"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 4048 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4048.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-08-10** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2023-08-10** New draft of H3938
- **2023-08-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-24** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-10-26** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-11-15** Taken out of the Notice Section
- **2023-11-15** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-11-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-11-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-11-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 70 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8fbeeff-69b9-4ea7-a6dd-46fc5ff4a4f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).